Meanings
comparative more dissonantly · superlative most dissonantly
- In a dissonant manner.
The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.
2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022
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dissonantly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dissonantly
“dissonantly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dissonantly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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